As an acolyte of a malevolent deity, you must construct a dungeon, defend against relentless raiders and forge a powerful idol on the path to appeasing your dark god.

The Deadly Path is a challenging yet rewarding building and resource management game that tasks players with constructing a formidable base, defending against relentless raiders, and orchestrating the construction of a powerful idol to appease their dark god.

Starting in the era of darkness, you must utilise an intuitive building system to excavate entombed tiles and create a labyrinthine network of walls, traps, and defensive structures within your occult dungeon. As you expand your base, you will uncover Ancient Ruins, Boneyards & Iron Veins, and strategically place resource generators to enrich your stockpiles. Populate your buildings with the monstrous servants at your disposal and advance through the ages to bring your dark lord into being and ensure the expansion of your malevolent domain.

Will you harness the forbidden knowledge and emerge as the harbinger of darkness, or will your base crumble beneath the weight of your enemies?

Aid the Deities of Dread and help shape the future of The Deadly Path in the Open Playtest for the upcoming underworld-building roguelike strategy game, available to download today on Steam.

Playable between June 7th-24th, The Deadly Path Open Playtest invites players to become the overlord of an occult dungeon and survive a world of eldritch horrors and forbidden rituals.

Discover the unique playstyle of Roiaan The Blightcaster and gather vital, vile materials to construct wicked dungeon defences against relentless raiders and other unforeseen threats.

Create a formidable economy balancing bones, meat, gold, knowledge and blood within your dungeon, expanding your base to uncover ruins, boneyards and occult mysteries to enrich your stockpiles. Construct unique buildings, upgrade your throne room, and advance through the ages to emerge as the harbinger of darkness in this unique roguelike dungeon management game.

Key Features:

• Choose the dark deity you wish to serve: Become an acolyte of a malevolent deity of your choosing. Each deity has their own perks, building types and units to manage. Successfully appease your god by building the Idol and defending your dungeon to unlock more deities and playstyles.
• Excavate, build and populate: An easy to pick up but difficult to master game loop. Excavate Entombed tiles within the occult dungeon to expand your base, while uncovering Ancient Ruins, Boneyards & Iron Veins on which to build resource generators and enrich your stockpiles. Populate your buildings with the servants at your disposal to expand and defend against raiders.
• Advance through the ages: Start in an era of darkness and upgrade the throne, sacrifice your servants and collect blood from the unbelievers to advance through the eras. Each new age provides new buildings, additional servants and possibilities to help grow your empire.
• Build the idol to appease your dark lord: Explore outwards from your throne room and uncover new (and dangerous) biomes, beacons, portals to hell, loot and artefacts to forge the idol. Unexpected dangers await as you uncover openings for raiders to emerge from and pillage your base!

The Deadly Path is in development for PC (Steam).